NSQ
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A realtime distributed messaging platform observed · 2026-09-23
Health v2 · maintenance only
63/100
- Activity 89
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5274
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 70
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
25777 stars · 2885 forks observed · 2026-09-23
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-10-12, confidence 0.97
NSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform that provides high‑throughput, low‑latency pub‑sub and load‑balanced message delivery. It runs as a set of lightweight binaries with no runtime dependencies and includes built‑in discovery, admin UI, and client libraries for many languages.
Use cases
- publish and consume high‑volume event streams in a microservices architecture
- implement a fault‑tolerant job queue for background processing
- stream telemetry data from IoT devices to analytics pipelines
- build a real‑time notification system for web or mobile apps
- distribute log messages to multiple consumers for monitoring and alerting
When to choose
- you need a simple, self‑hosted message queue with no single point of failure
- low latency and high throughput are critical for your workload
- you prefer a language‑agnostic protocol with official Go and Python clients
- you want built‑in service discovery and an easy‑to‑deploy binary or Docker image
When to avoid
- you require strong durability guarantees without additional configuration
- you need advanced broker features like transactions, exactly‑once delivery, or complex routing
- you prefer a fully managed cloud service rather than managing your own cluster
Facets
service · maturity active
message-queue streaming http-server cli backend microservices windows self-hosted go realtime distributed fault-tolerant in-memory disk-backed pub-sub load-balanced data-engineering devops linux macos docker
6 sources
- readme: https://github.com/nsqio/nsq · fetched 2026-09-23 · 2436a6c3ec30
- homepage: https://nsq.io · fetched 2026-09-28 · 504aea6a51f5
- site_page: https://nsq.io/overview/features_and_guarantees.html · fetched 2026-09-28 · 905a7a40c06a
- site_page: https://nsq.io/deployment/installing.html · fetched 2026-09-28 · 0ecaed492871
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pynsq/json · fetched 2026-09-28 · 726ca84a0d9b
- site_page: https://nsq.io/overview/design.html · fetched 2026-09-28 · fdac4668b30a
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| nsqio/nsq | main | 63 |
| nsqio/go-nsq | sdk | 34 |
| nsqio/go-diskqueue | infra | 38 |
| nsqio/pynsq | sdk | 23 |
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